Cultural Confluences: The Art of Lenore Chinn celebrates the public unveiling of The Oracle Room, a painting for which Chinn has received a 2011 San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Commission, in Visual Arts. It is contextualized by Chinn’s most iconic canvases which focus on Asian American and LGBT themes.

“The unveiling of every new painting by Lenore Chinn is a cultural event worth seeing – as Chinn is among San Francisco’s most inspiring artists. Her elegant work bridges communities and aesthetics.”

— Mark Dean Johnson
Professor of Art and Gallery Director at San Francisco State University; Editor, “Asian American Art: A History, 1850–1970;” Co-Curator, “Asian/American/Modern Art: Shifting Currents,” de Young Museum
Supported by the San Francisco Arts
Commission Cultural Equity Grants
Program through an Individual Artist
Commissions grant.

—UPDATE—please find an article on the artist and show from SF Gate here:

If you are up for a creative adventure in art, please come join me during this year’s Santa Cruz County Open Studios Art Tour. I’d love to see you. My painting studio is at 800 Estates Drive in Aptos, CA 95003 and will be open from 11am to 5 pm on:

October 8 and 9 (Saturday and Sunday)

October 15 and 16 (Saturday and Sunday)

At my studio, I’ll have signed copies of my new book available. It’s a 100-page color catalogue ($25 plus $2 tax) that includes an in-depth interview by Dr. Peter Selz, along with essays by art critics Mark Van Proyen and Maureen Davidson.

PS Also, feel free to join me at two other upcoming art events:

(1) “Emotion in Motion: New Paintings by Ursula O’Farrell,” runs October 1 – 31 at Bryant Street Gallery in Palo Alto, California. Public art reception at the gallery: Friday, October 7 from 6 to 8 pm. Bryant Street Gallery is located at 532 Bryant Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301 (650)321-8155

(2) In March 2012, come see my soon-to-be newest works at Patricia Rovzar Gallery in Seattle, Washington.

October 5th to December 9th, Multicultural Center, University of California, Santa Barbara.

For Asian American artists Cynthia Tom, Shari Arai DeBoer and Nancy Hom, art and activism are indivisible. They couple their singular artistic vision with a strong connection to roots and community activism. When Asian American arts are neglected by the mainstream, they create opportunities—educating and inspiring others through exhibitions, lectures and publications. Curated by Shizue Seigel.

Because of your valuable contributions to the field of Asian American art, I am requesting 5 -10 minutes of your time to complete a questionnaire that surveys your experience(s) of bringing Asian American art to the public. If you chose to remain anonymous, your identity will not be released to the public. All participants will be consulted if the data is to be used in a manner other than specified.

I am interested in studying how Asian American art is available in institutional and non-instutitonal settings by capturing the changing landscape of Asian American art practitioners’, scholars’, critics’, administrators’, and viewers’ experiences over the past 20 years. By recording, analyzing and discussing this information, my hope is that this research helps to preserve, learn, grow and celebrate Asian American culture and its contributions to U.S. society.

This research project was designed as part of the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts, “State of the Arts” annual conference. A tabulation of this research will be shared through a panel, “Assessing Asian American art and its Institutional Spaces,” at this year’s conference, “Future Tense: Alternative Arts and Economies in the University,” held at the University of California, San Diego, November 18-21, 2010. If you would like to attend the conference please notify me with your name and attendance date(s) and you will be added to the guest list. Your participation is deeply appreciated!

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,
Krystal R. Hauseur

OVERVIEW: I have broken the questionnaire into four sections: first, to share my rationale for doing this research; second, a background of influential scholars whose work I am building on; third, instructions to clarify my use of terms; and, finally, the actual questionnaire. You may skip to any, or all, of the first three sections to immediately begin taking the questionnaire (Section 4).

TO TAKE THE QUESTIONNAIRE PLEASE CLICK ON, OR COPY AND PASTE IN YOUR BROWSER, THIS LINK: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/hauseur

TO TAKE THE QUESTIONNAIRE A SECOND TIME TO DISCUSS ANOTHER EXPERIENCE PLEASE CLICK ON THIS LINK: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/hauseur_secondtime

Responses are collected by Krystal R. Hauseur, Doctoral Candidate, Ph.D Program in Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine, by Saturday, October 9, 2010. Please contact her with your questions or thoughts.

Join panelists from API (Asian Pacific Islander) Legal Outreach and
Cameron House as they discuss how the arts and projects like A Place
of Her Own can be used as vehicles of communication, healing and
building community for their clients and staff.

See her new work for A Place of Her Own as she shares her creative
process. Celebrate this amazing woman, leader, artist and activist.
The event is a fundraiser for AAWAA’s Archive project. Suggested
donation $15 – $25

Four Sansei women artists draw from personal, family and collective narratives to explore the complex legacies of the Japanese American experience through collage, assemblage, glass, found objects, painting, photography, image transfer, word, video, installation, and performance.

Artist Talk, Sun, Aug 28, 2 – 4 pm Intergenerational Legacies: The Meaning of Hybridity in an Evolving California by Shizue Seigel, artist and author of In Good Conscience: Supporting Japanese Americans During the Internment